PoemForRefugees

Kritya, a literary trust from India joined the word poetry event “A Poem For Refugees” on 21 March 2016 along with WPM and all other important organizations of the world.
Kritya organized the event in the five cities of India, From North most to south with the support of our friends.

Dionysios Solomos was a refugee, Andreas Kalvos a refugee, C.P. Cavafy a refugee, George Seferis a refugee, Iliuas Venezis a refugee, Dido Sotiriou a refugee and Loxandra the hero of Maria Iordanidou also a refugee. So many of our writers an d poets, both in the past and now, had been refugees.

In Ankara on March 20 at the “Cultural Centre of Nazım Hikmet” 27 poets will participate in the activity which the main coordinator is Mr. Abdullah Nefes (poet, prose writer and distinguished civilian activist).

Very strong response it had appeal from World Poetry Movement, the Circle of Poets, PEN International to the March 21st global poetic action. We present here the names of some of the organizers, cities and countries where activities will be carried out:

Hundreds of Syrian and Afghan refugees are concentrated in Eleutherias Square (Freedom Square). A refugee has the right to asylum in conditions of safety. But there, in Freedom Square, small tents are raised every two meters, refugees sleep on cement, they fight over bread while their young children play with an old ball. In Sweden, rightwing followers burned an asylum down. Germans and Danes take their goods. Several borders have orders to shoot them. The European police states that there are 10,000 lost refugee children.refugiados duermen sobre cemento, se pelean por los panes mientras sus pequeños hijos juegan con un viejo balón.